The Software Freedom Law Show

Episode 0x14: Considerations on GPL Business Models

18 August 2009

Bradley and Karen discuss a few different types of for-profit business models that are common around codebases licensed under the GPL.

This show was released on Tuesday 18 August 2009; its running time is 00:30:45.

Bradley mentioned Monty's blog post about the licensing of MySQL (01:10)
Bradley pointed out that “dual licensing” is a misleading term for a proprietary relicensing business model, as discussed on the Your Questions podcast. (02:33)
Bradley mentioned that he'd been making money as an independent consultant, which he wrote about in 2001 during the original Microsoft attacks on the GPL. (04:42)
Bradley mentioned Cygnus Solutions as a good model of a Free Software, GPL-based company. (06:54)
Bradley also mentioned Codesourcery as another example of a good GPL-based company (13:24)
Bradley mentioned Dave Neary's talk at OSCON, Does Working with Free Software Have to Be So Hard? (23:52)

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